Google TechTalks
April 28, 2006
Brion Vibber
Brion Vibber has worked on MediaWiki and Wikipedia's servers for four years, watching over its frightening growth from thousands to millions of pages, ...
Google TechTalks April 28, 2006
Brion Vibber Brion Vibber has worked on MediaWiki and Wikipedia's servers for four years, watching over its frightening growth from thousands to millions of pages, from dozens to thousands of hits per second.
ABSTRACT Over four years, MediaWiki has evolved from a quick hack to run a little-known encyclopedia web site to the monster engine behind a heavily-used public site, while maintaining the simplicity needed for an entry-level intranet wiki. Brion reviews past and future directions for Wikipedia's software and hardware, and how modern buzzword technologies could power and simplify the wiki world.
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Can i just say one thing. At the bottom of the Wiki donations page, it states that Wikipedia is a project of WikiMedia. How can this be, when Wikipedia was created in 2001, and WikiMedia in 2003. Should this not be the other way around. Or atleast, should it not be written as " an adopted project of WikiMedia?"
He could make a better start for so important a subject. Clearly Vibber is brilliant and he is speaking to a more expert audience but I am surprised and a bit dismayed by two aspects of his delivery: his slouchy "crazy thing that we do" introduction and his frequently vague language in the beginning do not invite confidence. However, his delivery improves as he progresses.
Wow, I haven't seen videos with more poor comments than this one. This comment of mine will be thumbed down, too, I bet. If you do this, mark you did.
I think Wikipedia should be banned, don't get me wrong it has alot of good info, but if Wiki was banned my University would have to be closed as its where all lectures come from!!!
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